This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: evolution of resolve

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: evolution of resolve

Has anyone sent this video to Adobe's feedback channels? :)

-gl

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:04 PM, tcurren@aol.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

At the preNAB Editor's Lounge panel, we take a show of hands poll every year on who is cutting on what. FCPX has yet to make inroads into the Hollywood crowd. But if you want to see a groundswell movement that caught us all by surprise, check out about 4:15 into this video.

http://www.editorslounge.com/2015.03-pre-nab/march2015prenab1.html

---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <blafarm@...> wrote :

> I know this might sound like heresy - but Resolve's continuing evolution to become an editing application is very interesting.

Same thoughts here.

I may be alone in this perception, but I am currently viewing Resolve's evolution as a professional variation of FCPX. Would I use Resolve to cut a big and complicated job -- absolutely not. However, Resolve has become the default go-to platform for grading and they are growing the editorial feature-set at an impressive rate.

It also seems inevitable that more and more Fusion functionality will make its way into Resolve -- or, at the very least, I suppose Fusion might remain stand-alone, but be very tightly integrated with Resolve.

So, how does the story end? Clock Wipe: Arguably, the industry standard node-based grading application has a modern node-based effects capability, along with an growing editorial feature-set that maybe satisfies a good percentage of use cases. Oh, and did I mention that it is free?

This year's NAB really drove home the message that Symphony is dead. As best as I can tell, there will not be new CC or FX modules. That's not to say that Media Composer is not a great editing platform. In some ways, though, it is stuck in a lot of legacy code that was showing its age quite a while ago -- and whose re-architecting does not seem to be high on the company's To Do list.

Personally and professionally, I would not cut on FCPX. However, one day in the near future it may make sense to cut some projects in Resolve, with industry standard CC, modern FX and no round tripping.

Frankly, I just wish Avid and BMD would just get married already. </joke>